Combine redundant connections

[etfz]

We have a lot of port channels going on, cluttering the topology. Would be great if there was an option to combine them visually into a single connection. It could be distinguished somehow from regular connections, and include all bundled connection in the tooltip.

[dreng]

What you are talking about sounds like logical connections which has been implemented in the meantime. Is it enough for you to hide the cables and display the logical connections instead?

Another approach would be to check in the loop if a cable has been connected already and deny to connect another cable. That would result in a connection with just one representative real cable. This also means that you might double click the one and only cable in order open the cable details, but you would never be able to double click a cable that has been denied to be displayed. This might lead to confusion about the logic itself.

I would not recommend to include all bundled connections in the tooltip, because that might let the tooltip explode (e.g. if there's 50 connections).

[candlerb]

What you are talking about sounds like logical connections which has been implemented in the meantime. Is it enough for you to hide the cables and display the logical connections instead?

With a port channel (LAG), you still get multiple "logical connections" in Netbox between the physical interfaces.

I previously raised a Netbox feature request where a LAG could have a logical neighbor relationship with a remote LAG, but this was closed: netbox-community/netbox#9401

[dreng]

A workaround could be #436. If we make smooth type and length an individual setting, you could set it in a way that no dynamic placing of cables is done. You would still have many cables but they look like just one.

[etfz]

The nature of my concern is primarily a visual one, so that might work, indeed. Though I don't fully understand all the options available. It seems like smooth.enabled = false is what I would want. Frankly, I would prefer to disable physics altogether, as I don't feel it adds anything, except perhaps preventing all nodes getting stacked on top of each other on the initial layout.

I suspect it would not let me see which cables are included, however. The current approach of needing to hover over a bunch of cables is very impractical, regardless.